Crowd Intelligence Lab at Virginia Tech

Author: Kurt Luther

  • Presented crowdsourced history research at University of Virginia

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    Dr. Luther and collaborator Dr. Paul Quigley of Virginia Tech’s Dept. of History presented their work on Mapping the Fourth of July in the Civil War Era and a new digital history project, Civil War Photo Sleuth. These invited presentations were part of a meeting on Civil War History and Digital Methodology hosted by the…

  • Presented evacuation research at ICAT PlayDate

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    Human-Centered Design PhD student Navid Fallah and Dr. Luther presented their research, Supporting Emergency Evacuations with Wearable and Crowd Technologies, at the weekly ICAT PlayDate, co-sponsored by ICAT and the Center for HCI at Virginia Tech.

  • Paper accepted for HCOMP 2016 GroupSight workshop

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    Our study of novice and expert image geolocation techniques was accepted for the GroupSight workshop on human computation for image and video analysis at HCOMP 2016 in Austin, Texas. Congrats to Ph.D. student Sneha Mehta, the lead author of the paper.

  • Participating in HCOMP 2016 Doctoral Consortium

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    Ph.D. student Nai-Ching Wang was accepted to the HCOMP 2016 Doctoral Consortium, where he will present his dissertation research on crowdsourced analysis of historical documents, and receive feedback from experts in the field.

  • Received NIH grant to study crowdsourced graph layouts

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    We received an NIH grant to study how crowdsourcing might be used to improve the layouts of biological graph visualizations. This project is a collaboration between Dr. Kurt Luther (MPI) and Dr. T.M. Murali (MPI) at Virginia Tech and Zooniverse, the world’s largest online citizen science portal. The grant is approximately $620,000 over two years and is part…

  • Interviewed for IEEE Spectrum article on crowdsourcing

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    IEEE Spectrum, the flagship magazine of IEEE, interviewed Dr. Luther for an article about running successful crowdsourcing campaigns. Some of his comments: After a project’s launch, says Kurt Luther, director of the Crowd Lab at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, collaborators must maintain open lines of communication and remember that contributors are real human beings. Developers,…

  • Mapping the Fourth of July goes public

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    Mapping the Fourth of July in the Civil War Era has launched! Mapping the Fourth is a crowdsourced digital archive that explores how Americans celebrated the Fourth of July while their nation was being torn apart. It is built with Incite, a plug-in developed by the Crowd Lab for the Omeka content management system. This project,…

  • Wikimedia funds enhancements to ProveIt

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    The Wikimedia Foundation has awarded a grant to Felipe Schenone to make improvements to ProveIt. Dr. Luther led the team that developed ProveIt when he was at Georgia Tech. ProveIt is a Wikipedia gadget that provides a friendly user interface for managing references in Wikipedia articles. The gadget has since been integrated into the English-language Wikipedia…

  • Divit Singh successfully defends MS thesis

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    Divit Singh, a member of the Crowd Lab and computer science MS student co-advised by Dr. Luther and Dr. T.M. Murali, successfully defended his master’s thesis today. Divit contributed to GraphSpace, an online hub for sharing biological network data; and GraphCrowd, an extension for crowdsourcing the visualization of these networks. Divit also conducted several experiments showing that…

  • Finalist for CHI 2016 Student Research Competition

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    Congrats to Ph.D. student Nai-Ching Wang, who was a finalist in graduate student division of the CHI 2016 Student Research Competition. His paper is titled, “Crowdnection: Connecting High-level Concepts with Historical Documents via Crowdsourcing.” He traveled to San Jose, CA to attend the conference and present his research to a panel of expert judges.